Here’s a scenario which Damien and I encountered recently. We needed a way of specifying Facets for properties on Entities, i.e. things like Nullable, MaxLength, Precision etc. And we needed a class hierarchy because different types of properties have different sets of available facets. The...

This is the second part in a series of articles about NHIbernate. This article covers one to one and one to many relationships, inheritance, etc.

Lazy Inheritance is an approach intended to simplify writing OOP and provides support of prototype-based classes hierarhies, automatic resolving and optimizing classes dependencies. Lazy inheritance designates a postponed linking of an object with it's prototype (class) until it is needed. The bene...

Learn to use good object-oriented design (OOD) principles for in your C# programs. Excerpt: Classes and their instances (objects) do not exist in a vacuum, but rather in a network of interdependencies and relationships, just as we, as social animals, live in a world of relationships and categories. ...